IES National Conference - Enterprise Building Portfolios

AugustAug082019 - AugustAug102019UTC

With over 1000 attendees from Building management companies as well as lighting firms, this show steers people towards technology solutions in the BMS/LMS space. A particular interest is that of full building analytics problems.

S.E.C. specializes in the critical automation required in nationwide facilities rollouts. With a specialty in national QSR and small foot-print retail, S.E.C in-store solutions allow for commission free installation of critical control and safety equipment, while also allowing for simple operation for in-store staff.

S.E.C. focuses on affordable building solutions that:• Cut energy consumption costs• Simplify day to day business operations• Lower startup costs for future growth• Provide consistency with their customers• Ensure a safe environment for employees• Protect property and equipment from fire

S.E.C. solutions can easily be enabled to work with the BitBox Platform for remote monitoring, portfolio analytics, and remote operation for hundreds or thousands of locations.

DENT Instruments is an industry-leading manufacturer of recording power meters, submeters, dataloggers, and a wide variety of compatible Current Transformers, including flexible Rogowski coil CTs. For over 30 years, DENT has built a reputation for providing energy measurement tools of the highest quality whose robust design, reliability, and value make them the products of choice by energy professionals worldwide.

Google Cloud IoT is a complete set of tools to connect, process, store, and analyze datasets.

Gain real-time business insights from globally-dispersed devices—at the edge or in the cloud—with a comprehensive toolset geared to IoT. Tools included in the platform, like Google BigQuery, allow for ad hoc analysis, while the Cloud Machine Learning engine offers advanced analytics. You can also visualize results with rich reports and dashboards in Google Data Studio. Custom data-driven applications can also be built on The Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using the suite of platform tools including Google app-engines.

The BitAPI offers native connectivity to the Google Cloud Platform through GRPC or REST. Additionally, entire BitEngine datasets can be stored in GCP on demand.

Finance, accounting, and property executives can make more informed decisions about portfolios of properties. This insight into analytics allows for increased value to their organizations through identification of high-return real estate transactions, increased facilities utilization, and reduced energy expenses.

DGLux helps integrators, designers, and building technology manufacturers create data-driven web applications, with a focus on customization to analyze, monitor, and control building data and analytics in a single, unified display. A data-driven, graphical engine allows for the customized deployment of mobile, desktop, cloud, or HMI display metrics, with powerful real-time features such as run-time charting, mapping, user interaction, a powerful dataflow logic engine, and a refined user access capability. DGLux enables end user operators to interact with data within their role with ease.

DGLux offers native integration with the BitAPI to enable this powerful graphical driven toolset. Full, white-labeled applications can be developed and custom tailored to any product or application need.

DGLux also offers professional UX design services for customers, allowing for a refined user interaction experience and stunning visualization of data for applications.

Fred Dirla

Chief Executive Officer

With over 20 years’ experience in various industry leadership roles for Fortune 500 companies, Dirla has established and successfully expanded data management and software businesses. A recognized industry thought leader in mission-critical and commercial facility management, automation, engineering and software development, Dirla was previously founder and CEO of the leading DCIM provider, FieldView Solutions, responsible for overall strategy, operations and financial management of the company before it was acquired by Nlyte Software where he served as COO. Previously, he was the COO of Energy Options, Service Manager at Johnson Controls, and General Manager of the Utilities privatization Division of Enron.

Luke Dalske

Chief Operating Officer

Luke Dalske oversees the company’s daily operations, working closely with the executive team to design and implement business operations to promote BitBox USA nationally and globally. Previously as Vice President of BitBox USA Deployment and Integration, Dalske led the monitoring platform’s deployment, integration, monitoring, and maintenance of distributed infrastructure from the core to the edge. A thought leader in data visualization and management with over 17 years’ experience in power monitoring, generator control systems, PLC, and SCADA, Dalske was previously with Schneider Electric’s professional services division where he led sales engineering, data center systems design, and implementation. Prior to that, he served as Senior Project Engineer and Engineer for Banks Integration Group and Syllogistix, respectively.

Mike Skurla

Chief Technology Officer

Mike Skurla has staked his claim at the nexus of software, hardware, and analytics. With more than 22 years’ experience in control automation and IoT product design with fortune 500 companies, Skurla rigorously pursues outcome-based analytics for mission-critical industries such as retail, telecommunications, healthcare, and data center infrastructure management (DCIM).

As a contributor to various industry publications, Skurla’s articles have appeared in Critical Facilities, LD+A, and USGBC. He is a contributing member of CABA, ASHRAE, IES Education, and USGBC and a frequent lecturer on the evolving use of analytics and emerging IT technologies to foster efficiency within commercial facility design.

Jon Trout

Founder

Throughout his civilian and military career, Jon has been recognized for his effectiveness at translating business requirements into strategic, actionable direction for multi-site teams.

Before co-founding BitBox USA, Jon was the VP of Engineering & Production for TrendPoint–a Schneider Electric subsidiary. In this role, Jon led a staff of 12 in the Technology, Production, Procurement, and Engineering Departments with the goals of defining technology vision, crafting sales messages, and establishing an ISO certified manufacturing process. Under Jon’s leadership, his team established the EnerSure power metering platform, used pervasively in top data facilities around the world.

In 2015, Jon sought a new challenge in the emerging concept of Edge Data Centers. He co-founded BitBox USA to aggressively develop and deploy industrial software solutions to manage these critical facilities. Jon’s vision paid off as the Edge market has grown substantially – leading to the acquisition of BitBox USA by Compass Data Centers in 2017.

Prior to civilian roles, Jon served as a Research & Development Technician in the U.S. Navy where he designed and developed a naval Command and Control system still in use today. He was also a Combat Systems Electronics Manager, accountable for the preventative maintenance program for external communications and data exchange processing systems.

Jon has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and has authored several articles in industry-leading publications on the topics of engineering scalable and cost-effective metering.